Click-Clack The Rattlebag, By Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman’s literature is very terrifying for most reader, he leaves us wondering a lot throughout these short stories about the characters being eaten alive by monsters, being in dangerous situations, or being killed. He is one of the most interesting authors i have read about in british literature. The build up in his stories are very suspenseful and helped me pick the theme for this essay. I picked “terrified” as the theme because most of his works are horror filled and he gives us a warning in the beginning of how terrifying his stories would be. When reading the stories i picked out the most disturbing parts of the story and how it could put other people in There aren’t many happy endings, it's alway left unanswered and up to the reader

The guy is possibly the sitter for the kid and he wants a story before bed. The kid describes the monster called “Click-Clack the Rattlebag” and Neil leaves us to assume that the kid was the monster. “He pushed open the door to the attic room. It was perfectly dark, now, but the opening door disturbed the air, and i heard things rattle gently, like dry bones in thin bags, in the slight wind. Click. Clack. Click. Clack. Like that. I would have pulled away then, if i could; but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark.”(Gaiman) The readers are going to assume that the kid is the monster and leaving us to think that the guy is about to be eaten. Throughout “Trigger warnings” there are a lot of plot twist in these stories, so the man could of been the monster and killed the kid or just got away. Reading previous neil gaiman’s stories i was not shocked that the kid could have been the

This story describes a long quest and throughout the journey the two guys had some scary encounters. When they came across a cottage it was risky place to go. “We slept on the hard-earth floor of that cottage. The fire went out, and there was no warmth from the hearth. The man and his woman slept in their bed, behind the curtain. He had his way with her, beneath the sheepskin that covered that bed, and before he did that, he beat her for feeding us and for letting us in. I heard them and could not stop hearing them, and sleep was hard in the finding that night”.(Gaiman) This situation was risky for both guys lives because they did not know his intentions and he could've killed them. Him basically raping and beating his woman is terrifying for most readers or people who have been in these situations. This whole story left us in suspense waiting for something to happen along the journey. They were so vulnerable without any weapons i expected something evil to grab them or anything happen to them and not be able to finish the journey. In the story “indissoluble matrimony” there is a similar situation to the relationship being purely physical. In british literature there is not many morales in characters and leaves the readers shocked at about the